Law Without Values

The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes

Albert W. Alschuler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2002
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-01521-7 (ISBN)

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This work paints a dark picture of Justice Holmes as a distasteful man who, among other things, espoused Social Darwinism, favoured eugenics, and as he himself acknowledged, came "devilish near to believing that might means right".

In recent decades, Oliver Wendell Holmes has been praised as "the only great American legal thinker" and "the most illustrious figure in the history of American law." But in Albert Alschuler's critique of both Justice Holmes and contemporary legal scholarship, a darker portrait is painted - that of a man who, among other things, espoused Social Darwinism, favored eugenics, and, as he himself acknowledged, came "devilish near to believing that might makes right."

Albert W. Alschuler is the Wilson-Dickinson Professor in the University of Chicago Law School. His study of Sir William Blackstone received the 1997 Sutherland Prize of the American Society of Legal Historians.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.6.2002
Sprache	englisch
Maße	16 x 23 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
ISBN-10	0-226-01521-1 / 0226015211
ISBN-13	978-0-226-01521-7 / 9780226015217
Zustand	Neuware